15 May
2000
15 May
'00
11:47 a.m.
Let Them Come to You
One way to find vintage computers is to let them find you.
Try placing an ad in the classifieds section of your local
paper. Be sure to specify exactly what you are looking for
to avoid getting a flood of false leads. In the very least,
include a cut-off year indicating you are not interested in
any computers manufactured after that year.
Anybody try this? What kind of response did you get?
Tom Owad
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15 May
15 May
11:43 a.m.
On Mon, 15 May 2000, Tom Owad wrote:
Not a newspaper ad, but posting a Usenet ad was quite possibly the best
thing I could've ever done. I posted several ads in the local for sale
newsgroups periodically over the course of several months and turned up
all sorts of good stuff.
Let Them Come
to You
One way to find vintage computers is to let them find you.
Try placing an ad in the classifieds section of your local
paper. Be sure to specify exactly what you are looking for
to avoid getting a flood of false leads. In the very least,
include a cut-off year indicating you are not interested in
any computers manufactured after that year.
Anybody try this? What kind of response did you get? 
16 May
16 May
2:59 a.m.
At 04:47 PM 5/15/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Three years ago I placed a small ad in our weekly shopping guide and
turned up about a hundred old computers of various types. After several
months I discontinued the ad because I was running out of space, the
computers were becoming of less interesting types, and although about 50
percent were no charge, the remainder were taking too big a bite out of my
old age pension. The effects are still lingering on, however, for this year
I have received several, including one Rainbow and a couple of Apple ][E's.
Cheers
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox
Chas E. Fox Video Productions
793 Argyle Rd. Windsor N8Y 3J8 Ont. Canada
email foxvideo(a)wincom.net
Check out "The Old Walkerville Virtual Museum" at
http://www.skyboom.com/foxvideo and
Camcorder Kindergarten at http://www.chasfoxvideo.com
Let Them Come
to You
One way to find vintage computers is to let them find you.
Try placing an ad in the classifieds section of your local
paper. Be sure to specify exactly what you are looking for
to avoid getting a flood of false leads. In the very least,
include a cut-off year indicating you are not interested in
any computers manufactured after that year.
Anybody try this? What kind of response did you get?
Tom Owad
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Apple Prototypes, Clones, & Hacks - The obscure, unusual, & exceptional.
---------------------<http://www.applefritter.com/>---------------------
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